---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elevator Safety - Privately Owned Single-Family Residential Elevators - Inspection and Registration Requirements"
description: "Elevator Safety - Privately Owned Single-Family Residential Elevators - Inspection and Registration Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 505"
citation: "Maryland HB 505 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Amprey", "Bagnall", "Boafo", "Charkoudian", "Harrison", "Howard", "Jackson", "Lehman", "Qi", "Queen", "Rogers", "Valderrama"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-30"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c0abea4-18c0-4895-b9f5-fbabeba650aa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0505?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ed6eaea4700e4a52d3d8ea4ffb599b63ebcaa993b639855e2b12363f440bf65b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 505 (2023) — Elevator Safety - Privately Owned Single-Family Residential Elevators - Inspection and Registration Requirements

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Elevator Safety - Privately Owned Single-Family Residential Elevators - Inspection and Registration Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_293_hb0505t.pdf)
2. **First - Elevator Safety - Privately Owned Single-Family Residential Elevators - Inspection and Registration Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0505f.pdf)
3. **Third - Elevator Safety - Privately Owned Single-Family Residential Elevators - Inspection and Registration Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0505t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Amprey — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Harrison — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)
- Queen — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-30** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 293 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c0abea4-18c0-4895-b9f5-fbabeba650aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).